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thank you for the opportunity. >> we appreciate the president submitting your name to us and giving us an opportunity to consider that nomination. we appreciate very much your willingness to serve. i like to kid around a little bit, and we've done that some here today, but having said that the situation the postal service faces is dire and serious. we know that. there is hope in a hopeless world, and i think there is reason to be hopeful for the postal service, too, and i will say the legislation we passed this not solve all of the problems. it does not make the postal service viable or profitable forever, but it helps to get back in the right direction, and it is something that can be improved upon and it needs to be. i know you served for a while with the national governors' association and head of the opportunity to call any number of governors. i was wondering, did you ever think that someday people would refer to you as governor? >> i did not. >> and you would not have to run for office, raised a dime, it is a baby or do any of that? [laughter] now people can call you governor, if
thank you for the opportunity. >> we appreciate the president submitting your name to us and giving us an opportunity to consider that nomination. we appreciate very much your willingness to serve. i like to kid around a little bit, and we've done that some here today, but having said that the situation the postal service faces is dire and serious. we know that. there is hope in a hopeless world, and i think there is reason to be hopeful for the postal service, too, and i will say the...
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all of us are proud to call you our fellow citizens. now it is my distinct honor and privilege to introduce to you the president of the united states, barack obama. mr. president. [applause] >> thank you. good morning, everybody. secretary napolitano, distinguished guests, family and friends, welcome to the white house. happy fourth of july. what a perfect way to celebrate america's birthday. the world's oldest democracy, with some of our newest citizens. i have to tell you personally, this is one of my favorite things to do. it brings me great joy in an inspiration. it reminds us that we are a country bound together not simply by ethnicity o bloodlines but by fidelity to a set of ideals. as members of our military, you raised your hand and took an oath of service. it is an honor for me to serve as your commander in chief. today you raised your hand and have taken an oath of citizenship. i could not be proper to be among the first to greet you as my fellow americans. looking back, it was an act of extraordinary audacity, a few dozen del
all of us are proud to call you our fellow citizens. now it is my distinct honor and privilege to introduce to you the president of the united states, barack obama. mr. president. [applause] >> thank you. good morning, everybody. secretary napolitano, distinguished guests, family and friends, welcome to the white house. happy fourth of july. what a perfect way to celebrate america's birthday. the world's oldest democracy, with some of our newest citizens. i have to tell you personally,...
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[applause] i want us to go forward. my opponent and his friends in congress - they got an economic plan. yeah, well, it sounds like you have heard the plant. [laughter] their plan is to cut taxes more for the wealthy, cut more regulations on banks, insurance companies, on scurrilous lenders and cut education and research and hope that somehow all that will create more prosperity for everybody. that is a good. -- that is a good theory. it did not work. it got us into this mess and the first place. [applause] -- in the first place. i think most of you, like most of america, understands that america works best not with top down economics but with a metal out economics, with a bottle of economics. when everybody has opportunity, everybody does well including those at the top. that is how we became the most prosperous nation on earth. that is how we built the greatest middle-class and history. -- in history. it is because i want to restore the basic argubargain and i am running for president of the united states. [applause]
[applause] i want us to go forward. my opponent and his friends in congress - they got an economic plan. yeah, well, it sounds like you have heard the plant. [laughter] their plan is to cut taxes more for the wealthy, cut more regulations on banks, insurance companies, on scurrilous lenders and cut education and research and hope that somehow all that will create more prosperity for everybody. that is a good. -- that is a good theory. it did not work. it got us into this mess and the first...
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let us have this debate. let us have this vote. let us make sure that working americans aren't held hostage to the wealthiest in our country. i yield if the gentleman wants to respond. mr. cantor: madam speaker, what i say to the gentleman is holding hostage working families is denying them a job. it's about jobs. and, you know, the gentleman can play with the statistics all he wants and claimed that 97% of the small businesses will get a tax break this way and let's leave the others for later. but the significant fact is it's the others -- it's the others is where the significant job growth can be. why would we want to go and tax job creators. we know that 50% of the people that will get a tax hike under the president's proposal get at least a quter of their income from small business. and the more their income the more the percentage. that means the jobs. so why would we want to stop job creators from hiring people because washington takes more of their money? why would we want tax rates to go up on anybody in this anemic economy
let us have this debate. let us have this vote. let us make sure that working americans aren't held hostage to the wealthiest in our country. i yield if the gentleman wants to respond. mr. cantor: madam speaker, what i say to the gentleman is holding hostage working families is denying them a job. it's about jobs. and, you know, the gentleman can play with the statistics all he wants and claimed that 97% of the small businesses will get a tax break this way and let's leave the others for later....
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thank you for joining us. as you know, we have a special briefing today by michael posner to talk about are just-completed annual dialogue with china on a human rights. without further ado. >> before i begin, i want to say how much we are welcome -- how much we welcome the appointment by the european union of a new position of special representative for human rights. we welcome the first appointee. he has a long record of working with the european union on of human rights, and the creation of this position strengthens that commission -- commitment. we look forward to working with him. i want to make a short statement and then i'd be glad to answer questions. on monday and tuesday, we hosted our annual human rights dialogue with the chinese government. i was pleased to lead the u.s. delegation at these meetings for the third time. our delegation included representatives from the department of justice,usaid, the department of labor, national security staff, and the department of state. my counterpart is the dire
thank you for joining us. as you know, we have a special briefing today by michael posner to talk about are just-completed annual dialogue with china on a human rights. without further ado. >> before i begin, i want to say how much we are welcome -- how much we welcome the appointment by the european union of a new position of special representative for human rights. we welcome the first appointee. he has a long record of working with the european union on of human rights, and the...
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let us have this debate. let us have this vote. let us make sure that working americans aren't held hostage to the wealthiest in our country. i yield if the gentleman wants to respond. mr. cantor: madam speaker, what i say to the gentleman is holding hostage working families is denying them a job. it's about jobs. and, you know, the gentleman can play with the statistics all he wants and claimed that 97% of the small businesses will get a tax break this way and let's leave the others for later. but the significant fact is it's the others -- it's the others is where the significant job growth can be. why would we want to go and tax job creators. we know that 50% of the people that will get a tax hike under the president's proposal get at least a quarter of their income from small business. and the more their income the more the percentage. that means the jobs. so why would we want to stop job creators from hiring people because washington takes more of their money? why would we want tax rates to go up on anybody in this anemic econo
let us have this debate. let us have this vote. let us make sure that working americans aren't held hostage to the wealthiest in our country. i yield if the gentleman wants to respond. mr. cantor: madam speaker, what i say to the gentleman is holding hostage working families is denying them a job. it's about jobs. and, you know, the gentleman can play with the statistics all he wants and claimed that 97% of the small businesses will get a tax break this way and let's leave the others for later....
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give us this dust standard. the workers in this country have a right to rely on the law to protect them, not some notion of this committee or this congress' sense of passion and whether it will be invoked on that given day or not by the lobbying effort by these industries. it's about the law that protects workers and their families. workers who get up every day and families and themselves hope they get to come home at night, but it doesn't happen for a lot of workers. in these industries with dust, it happens over and over and over again, they get killed on the job. i have been here a long time working on combustible dust and the industry doesn't say, we have killed enough people, let us hold hands and see if we come up with something. it is complicated and based upon science, based upon research so that you can isolate the dust and so the explosions don't happen. but this legislation suggested by the committee, notice in the committee that this is one of the regulations that they would target. they can say one
give us this dust standard. the workers in this country have a right to rely on the law to protect them, not some notion of this committee or this congress' sense of passion and whether it will be invoked on that given day or not by the lobbying effort by these industries. it's about the law that protects workers and their families. workers who get up every day and families and themselves hope they get to come home at night, but it doesn't happen for a lot of workers. in these industries with...
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>> we use fpi under contract. i believe we use them in d.c. >> what do you mean by use? >> i believe we have a contract. is there a particular issue? >> it is a program and we want to maximize the use of, because you have prisoners giving job training using the program, encouraging them to be more likely to get a john when they get out. -- to get a job when they get the program is not being fully utilized, and we want to make sure the department of homeland security is using the program so we get the best benefit. the numbers have been declining over the last few years. good >> my understanding is we are, but i would be happy to verify that. >> madam secretary, you have made several references to responding to requests from this committee in a timely fashion. you asked to appear on october 26 of last year common and following the hearing, a number of questions were transmitted to you in a timely fashion, and the dancers rolled in at 11:26 p.m. last night. do you regard that nine months' time. -- that nine months' time as being timely? the price it was not -- >> it was no
>> we use fpi under contract. i believe we use them in d.c. >> what do you mean by use? >> i believe we have a contract. is there a particular issue? >> it is a program and we want to maximize the use of, because you have prisoners giving job training using the program, encouraging them to be more likely to get a john when they get out. -- to get a job when they get the program is not being fully utilized, and we want to make sure the department of homeland security is...
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none of us are challenging -- i'm not challenging the transparency that you've given to us and seeing what is happening. moving forward to the future, not the past. the ranking members opening comments about playing politics, most of -- this is about trying to build a better america than we have now. auditing the fed to most of the american people seems like something that's responsible if the political games wouldn't be played. can you comment? i mean are you that opposed to auditing the fed? >> very much so. i think the term audit the fed is deceptive. the public thinks that auditing moons checking the books, looking at the financial statements, making sure you are not doing special deals. awful those thing -- all of those things are open. all of our books are audited by an outside private auditor. we have inspector general. if there's anything that congress wants to know about our financial operations, all they have to do is say so. the one thing which i consider to be absolutely critical though about the bill and -- is that it would eliminate the exemption for monetary policy and
none of us are challenging -- i'm not challenging the transparency that you've given to us and seeing what is happening. moving forward to the future, not the past. the ranking members opening comments about playing politics, most of -- this is about trying to build a better america than we have now. auditing the fed to most of the american people seems like something that's responsible if the political games wouldn't be played. can you comment? i mean are you that opposed to auditing the fed?...
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he used to load us onto an rv and drive us around the country to show us how great this nation is. he would tell us history of our country even if he didn't know it. we would ask him questions when we were driving through arizona. "grand-dad, why do they call this town yuma, arizona?" and he would say, "well, let me see, that's because when this town was founded, there was a gun fight and one guy shot the other and he grabbed his heart and said, 'you ma' and then died." [laughter] i talked to my grandfather all the time about this country. he tells me that, son, this country, we forget we talk always about the declaration of independence. but really, this nation was founded on a declaration of interdependence -- this recognition that we need each other. when i talk to my grandfather now, i anguish to him that we are a nation that has become so polarized, where people are so quick to identify themselves as democrat or republican before they say, first and foremost, that i am an american. they're so focused on left and right that they forget that this nation must go forward. [applaus
he used to load us onto an rv and drive us around the country to show us how great this nation is. he would tell us history of our country even if he didn't know it. we would ask him questions when we were driving through arizona. "grand-dad, why do they call this town yuma, arizona?" and he would say, "well, let me see, that's because when this town was founded, there was a gun fight and one guy shot the other and he grabbed his heart and said, 'you ma' and then died."...
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us grow. -- helping us grow. we have to make sure everyone is doing their fair shape -- share. the way i am talking about, we tried that to under a guy named bill clinton. we created 22 million new jobs. we had a surplus. medicare was protected. social security was protected. [applause] by the way, wealthy people did pretty well, too. when middle-class families are doing well, and they have money in their pockets, they are spending it with the local restaurants. businesses have more customers. they hire more workers. you get a virtuous cycle where everyone does well. that is the recipe for success. this is not the only place where autoe a different fromrwe talke industry. mr. romney said, let's let the courts go bankrupt. there were 1 million jobs at stake. i said, no, let's bet on american workers, american manufacturers. now gm is number one again. chrysler and ford are on the move. [applause] i want to make sure that what we did with the auto industry, let's do it with manufacturing across
us grow. -- helping us grow. we have to make sure everyone is doing their fair shape -- share. the way i am talking about, we tried that to under a guy named bill clinton. we created 22 million new jobs. we had a surplus. medicare was protected. social security was protected. [applause] by the way, wealthy people did pretty well, too. when middle-class families are doing well, and they have money in their pockets, they are spending it with the local restaurants. businesses have more customers....
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we will not hesitate to use the tools available to us including the voting rights act if they are used to improperly denied the right to vote out. i completely and utterly agree with him and evan bayh is our approach. >> i will contain -- and that in bodies of our approach. >> i will continue that discussion. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. mr. scott, you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. perez, when southern states hospitals were segregated, and were integrated because president johnson conditioned the receipt of medicare and medicaid on a policy of nondiscrimination -- is a policy of nondiscrimination without exception as a condition to receiving federal money still a good idea? >> i am very familiar with title 6 with prohibits nondiscrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin. we have a section that aggressively enforces title 6. >> what about religious discrimination? >> as we have discussed before, the administration continues to be committed to insuring that the partner with organizations in ways
we will not hesitate to use the tools available to us including the voting rights act if they are used to improperly denied the right to vote out. i completely and utterly agree with him and evan bayh is our approach. >> i will contain -- and that in bodies of our approach. >> i will continue that discussion. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. mr. scott, you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr....